Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.

  • Karl Otfried Müller
Date:
1852
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    Labyrinth with Bhoecus and Theodorus. Imagea of Hera especially, .fflginet. p. 97. 4. The TeXxTwEf (Mulciber) also appear to have been an ancient guild of smiths and image-makers at Sicyon, Crete and Rhodes, from whom the weapons and images of the gods are derived (Zeus, Hera, Apollo Telchinus at Rhodes). Pindar alludes to the Dajdalian life of their statues and the evil fame of their sorceries, 01. vii, 60. Comp. Bockh and Dissen. Welcker Prometh. s. 182, Hoeck Creta i. s. 345. Lobeck Aglaoph. p. 1181. All these guilds and races figure not unfiequently in fable as malicious enchanters. Some carved images were also attributed to Epeius of Panopeus (a Minyan city) the master who made the lov^eiog iVTrof.—The Samian bro- thers Telecles and Theodorus executed a carved statue of Apollo Pythseus at Samos of two pieces of wood, as was pretended, apart from each other, whence it was inferred that they wrought by a fixed Egyptian canon. Diodor. i, 98. 1 71. In the last century of this period metal statues of the gods made their appearance,—probably not without impulse from Asia Minor,—such as the Zeus of the Dsedalid Learchus (§. 70. rem. 2), some few works of the Samian school, but 2 especially the colossal Zeus of beaten gold which was conse- crated at Olympia (about 01. 38) by Cypselus or Periander, and for which the wealthy inhabitants of Corinth were obliged to sacrifice a considerable portion of their property, [if this is not an invented tradition]. 1. There lay a virgin of brass on the tomb of a Phrygian king. Epigr. Homer. 3. Comp. §. 240.—Of the Samian school Pausanias could only discover in brass a statue of Night at Ephesus by Rhoecus, a very rude work, X, 38, 3. 2. The Cypselid work is called >co7^oaoros, sufisyiBnis dvl^iiis, a.yxhf^», Zev;, jC^vaov;, a(pv^'^'Kct.rog, oAoVcpy^o? (not plated). The following are particu- larly instructive passages: Strab. viii. p. 353, 378, the authors in Photius and Suidas, s. v. Kv^o^il^u, the Schol. Plat. Phaedr. p. 20,1. Bekk. Comp. Schneider Epim. ad Xen. Anab. p. 473. 1 72. Images of the gods were also produced in the work- shops of the potters, although less for the service of the tem- ples than for domestic worship and sepulture. Many such, manufactured by Attic workers in clay (T?)Xo'j-Xa9o;), of great simplicity and rudeness, are still found in the tombs at 2 Athens. Figures and reliefs of earth Avere also made at an early period as ornaments for houses and public porticoes, especially at Corinth and in the Attic Cerameicus. [Stamped silver money was introduced by Pheido §. 98.] 1. Uii-hiyot ^eol, particularly HcphjBstus, Schol. Arist. Birds 436, Juven. X 132. Attic Sigillaria, Walpole's Memoirs, p. 324. pi. 2. [D. A. K. 1 Tf 2 n. 15.] Zeus and Hera of Samos, Gerhard Ant. BUdw. i, 1. Comp.